Kite



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M NAKATA KITE Filed April 28, 1926 Patented Dec. 7, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

KITE.

Application filed April 28, 1926. Serial No."v105,283.

This invention relates to an improvement in kites, constructed with aview to permitting an adjustment of certain parts thereof to cause thekite to rise with varying degrees 5 of rapidity and to relativelydifferent elevations as a result of such adjustment.

The invention consists in a kite comprising a skeleton frame ofappropriate material covered by the usual or any preferred ap- 9propriate covering with a series of flying cords leading from variousportions of the frame to a main flying cord; each of the supplementalflying cords being capable ot adjustment to vary their lengths tothereby normally hold the kite at varying angles to the vertical whileflying, with the result to vary the rapidity with which the kite risesand also to some extent control the elevation to which it will rise.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. l is a perspective view of the im-- proved kite.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the adjusting means Jfor the cords.

Fig. 8 is an edge view of the same.

4 is a side elevation showing the kite adjusted for rapid rising andhigh elevation.

'Fig 5 is a similar view showing the kite arranged for less rapid risingand held to a lower elevation.'

The improved kite'is made up of a frame comprising angularly relatedstrips l and 2, preferably though not necessarily disposed at rightangles to each other and made ot any appropriate material as lightsteel, bamboo, spruce, or the like. The frame thus provided is designedto be covered with an appropriate material as paper fabric or the likeindicated at 3, and of courseit is to be understood that the kite as awhole may be in any appropriate or acceptable form. Auxiliary flyingcords 4 are connected to the frame, preferably at each juncture betweenthe crossing strips of the frame, and these auxiliary flying cords whichare normally of similar lengths are terminally connected to a mainflying cord 5 through which the kite is manipulated.

The main object of the present invention is the provision ot meanswhereby any desired number of the auxiliary flying cords maybe varied inlength, and such means is here shown as comprising a plate-like section6 formed with openings 7 near the respective ends through which theauxiliary flying cords are passed.V The openings in the plate are sodisposed that'when desired the flying cords may be drawn therethroughinloop form to reduce the length of the particular cord, the relation ofthe openings and cord serving to hold the cord in its adjusted position.n

If it is desired that the kite should rise rapidly and fly to thehighest elevation pen mit-ted, the uppermost auxiliary cords areshortened so as to normally khold the frame of the kite at an angle tothe vertical, indicated in Fig. 3, while if it is desired that the kiteshould rise less rapidly and to a less elevation, the lowermostauxiliary cords are correspondingly shortened, holding the kite normallyin that inclination to the vertical, indicated in Fig. 4.

Obviously, any appropriate adjustment of any one or' more of theauxiliary flying cords may be made to control the flying operation ofthe kite as will be evident.

Vhat I claim is:

A kite, a main flying cord, a series ot auxiliary flying cords betweenthe main flying cord and kite, and an adjusting member carried by eachauxiliary flying cord and through which the cord passes, said memberpermitting the cord to be varied in length at will.

In testimony whereof I afliX mysignature.

MASAHACHI NAKATA.

